Word: pimped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the film has the quality of dislocation. It is lit like a Wyeth painting and informed with the lunatic logic of Magritte. Only twice does it grow didactic. In an Italian whorehouse, 19-year-old Nately (Art Garfunkel) confronts a 107-year-old pimp. The scene is photographed narrative, almost word-for-word from the book's symbolic and simplistic confrontation: weary but supposedly immortal Italy v. vigorous but naive and supposedly doomed America. When the boy accuses the ancient of shameless opportunism, the centenarian defends himself with the ultimate weapon: age. "I'll be 20 in January...
...House Committee people gave Bad Boy ten dollars because they thought he was the greasiest guy there. They gave five to Spider because he was second greasiest and the biggest pimp. He smiled, and the toothpick in his mouth swung up, Spider didn't usually smile unless he was picking up a chick or putting a shine to his boots...
...beatniks. Just as people in there were getting shaken up about Spider and his buddies, the bouncer came over and chased them out. Told them they smelled bad, too. Spider said they shouldn't take lip like that, but Rocco told Spider he was a pimp. They scrammed...
...asked Spider if he'd be up for a beer party. Spider didn't want to admit that he was such a pimp he didn't like beer, so he said...
...mezzanine, music plays from a transistor radio the cabbie pimp has thoughtfully provided. Sam is trying to figure out whether once he has paid for the wedding they will have enough pesos to buy gas to get back to California. Merilee beams at the toothless priest who is gumming the consonants in his chants, and suddenly through an access of amazing grace, she comprehends Maya. Candles flame, incense smells, Girl pants, chickadees are released and a pigcon and the entire entourage totters dizzily down 192 steps without casualty, preceded by the pimp carrying the still-chanting priest...